Archive for November 13th, 2008
Peter Schiff’s predictions about Obama’s economy
Thursday, November 13th, 2008Peter Schiff needs a blag. Well, he has one, sort of; he publishes weekly commentaries at his website. I can't link to any of them, though, because they don't have URLs of their own. In his most recent one, "The Reagan Counterrevolution," he compares the relatively government-reducing ideology that won ...
Heroic Peter Schiff compilation
Thursday, November 13th, 2008The best parts are all the optimistic State cheerleaders scoffing in derision at Peter Schiff and his doom-and-gloom predictions. This will probably be the best ten minutes of TV you watch today. One of many favorite exchanges from this compilation was between Peter Schiff and Art Laffer: Schiff: It's not wealth ...
Early English law screwed the masses to benefit the aristocracy
Thursday, November 13th, 2008In my ongoing and very occasional progression through Bruce Benson's masterpiece The Enterprise of Law, I am learning more and more about the origins of authoritarian (State-originated and -enforced) law and its usurpation of customary (community-originated and reciprocal-incentive-enforced) law in Medieval England. The main thrust of chapter 3 is that ...